Hosea 13:12-14

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹²The iniquity of Ephraim [not fully punished yet] is bound up [as in a bag]; his sin is laid up in store [for judgment and destruction].

¹³The pains of a woman in childbirth are coming on for him [to be born]; but he is an unwise son, for now when it is time [to be born], he comes not to the place where [unborn] children break forth [he needs new birth but makes no effort to acquire it].

¹⁴Should I ransom them from the power of Sheol (the place of the dead)? Should I redeem them from death? ^[a]O death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction? Relenting and compassion are hidden from My eyes.^(A)

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Footnotes

Hosea 13:14 The apostle Paul in I Cor. 15:55 brings to mind this passage—but with a triumphant reversal of meaning made possible by our Lord’s resurrection.

Hosea 13:12-14

New International Version

¹²The guilt of Ephraim is stored up,
    his sins are kept on record.^(A)
¹³Pains as of a woman in childbirth^(B) come to him,
    but he is a child without wisdom;
when the time^(C) arrives,
    he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.^(D)

¹⁴“I will deliver this people from the power of the grave;^(E)
I will redeem them from death.^(F)
Where, O death, are your plagues?
Where, O grave, is your destruction?^(G)